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From the President: 29-31 August

29–31 August 1980 · Tararua (Walls Whare, Reeves, Cone Flat, Cone, Cone Saddle)

This text was read by OCR from a scanned newsletter and has not been proofread yet, so expect odd characters and mistakes.

29-31 Auqust Have you noticed that Kelvin Hoy is out tramping regularly again. Last week he lec me over Reeves, Cown to Cone Flat, on an ascent of Cone, and back to Walis. b, Sa: ~s5 «Beet It was a weekend of repartee. Dave met me with threats of a reply to my letter in the last newsletter. Rozlyn wanted to know why her name (spelt wrongly) was in the letter andl not Dave's.

~ 4 pa We broke the world recors for fire lighting. I think everyone had “ago. After 1% hours’ Kelvin and “I gave up and cooked Spaghetti Bolognese on primuses. — William, Rozlyn end Carol. took over. — ‘After’ a further 1 hours they hada beaut ‘fire going. My offer to serve dinner in the pit was Ceclined We met the FE trip on Cone. They left us eating lunch on Cone Saddle. Somehow we got to Walls first without overtaking them. on the trip: Kelvin Hoy, Rozlyn Greenfield, Carol Scott, William Whewell, and Mike Hollis.

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Newsletter
Reference
newsletter scan 1980 - newsletter p50-51
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Newsletter scan, OCR (not proofread)
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Notes
text: Tesseract OCR, not yet proofread (mean OCR confidence 80.9)
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archive/reports/1980-08-29_from-the-president-29-31-august/report.md
Record id
1980-08-29_from-the-president-29-31-august